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Section 35p funds high-impact tutoring

 Michigan Funds Tutoring That Works. GROW Is Already Approved to Deliver It.

 Section 35p funds high-impact tutoring through eligible partners like GROW. We build your application, your superintendent signs a letter of support, and tutoring starts this spring.

Applications Due Soon: November 19, 5 p.m. CST.

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Get the Michigan 35p Grant Guide (Letter of Support Included)

Every Section 35p application needs a signed letter of support from each partner district. We filled in MDE’s template for you and added a one-page guide to everything else about the grant. Add your district’s details, sign, send.

What's in the plan:

  • A one-page guide to Section 35p: what it funds, who does what, and every key date
  • The letter of support, built on MDE’s template, with Paper already filled in as your tutoring partner
  • Highlighted fields for the pieces you own: district name, fiscal agent, grades, subjects, and projected students
  • A plain-language breakdown of what your district agrees to, and what Paper handles
  • Three steps to get your signed letter to your fiscal agent before the November 19 deadline
The real differences
 

What It Funds

 

High-impact tutoring through eligible partners; groups of four or fewer, at least two sessions a week; funded through September 30, 2028.

 

Who Qualifies
 

 

The partner writes the application and runs the program; your district signs a letter of support and your fiscal agent submits.

 

Key Dates

 

Opens: November 1st
Due: November 19
Decisions: January 15;
Funds: arrive in March
Tutoring: starts this spring

The real differences

Compare Before You Commit

Every provider on the approved list will call it high-dosage tutoring. These are the differences that decide whether students build momentum or simply log time.

 
  GROW BY PAPER THE "ANY-TUTOR-ANY-TIME" VENDORS THE "ALL-IN-ONE" BIG BOX VENDORS DIY IN-HOUSE TUOTRING
Same trained tutor
every session		 Yes, all cycle Rotating, any-tutor-anytime No consistent human tutor Spotty coverage, you have to hire and/or schedule
Tutor employment model U.S.-based W-2 workforce Independent contractors, sometimes not U.S. -based Software first, staffing varies Independent contractors or teachers with extra time
Aligned to your pacing
and standards		 Built to your curriculum Generic or tutor-dependent Fixed proprietary content Aligned, bu you have to create and manage programs
Scheduling, rostering,
and launch		 Fully managed by Paper Left to your team Mostly self-serve Left to your team
ESSA evidence for the
tutoring program itself		 ESSA Level III for HIT Often borrowed from another product Evidence tied to software, not HIT Not applicable, progress monitoring is hit and miss
What it
actually does		 Tutoring is the whole business Consumer tutoring marketplace/tutoring as gig work Tutoring is one product of many Logistical management outweighs tutoring impact
the parT most providers sacrifice

Continuity is the real difference

High-dosage tutoring works because of two things nearly every shortcut gives away. Protect both and students build. Break either and you are back to activity that looks busy and moves nothing.

TUTOR & CURRICULUM CONTINUITY

TUTOR & CURRICULUM CONTINUITY

When tutors change or instruction isn’t aligned to the classroom, students don’t build momentum, they start over.
Progress only happens when learning compounds, not resets.

LOGISTIC & OPERATIONAL OWNERSHIP
LOGISTIC & OPERATIONAL OWNERSHIP
 

When no one truly owns tutor scheduling, tutor session content, or student progress monitoring, consistency is the first thing to slip.
And over time, consistency gives way to what’s urgent.

UNCOMPROMISED SCALE & EXPANSION
UNCOMPROMISED SCALE & EXPANSION
 
Sustaining a program is hard enough—expanding it across grades, schools, and students is where it breaks.What doesn’t hold at scale doesn’t deliver impact.
TIER 2 / TARGETED SUPPORT FIDELITY
TIER 2 / TARGETED SUPPORT FIDELITY
 
Most tutoring labeled as Tier 2 operates more like Tier 1—general support without sustained intensity. Meaningful Tier 2 impact requires a higher level of consistency, structure, and intent.
MEASURABLE ACADEMIC OUTCOMES
MEASURABLE ACADEMIC OUTCOMES
 
If you’re not using assessments and tracking progress at a granular level, you’re relying on perception, not evidence.
What matters is whether students are measurably moving forward—and how you respond when they’re not.
BUILT FOR HOW Michigan MEASURES SUCCESS

Data that shows growth, not just usage

Michigan runs on evidence, and so does GROW. Every student starts with a baseline, gets formative checks in every session, and finishes with an end-of-program assessment, all mapped to standards. You see growth as it happens, and Paper validates it against the measures you already trust.

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Before and after, at the standard level

 

Baseline, formative, and end-of-program assessments show exactly which standards students mastered.

 

Validated against your benchmarks

 

Results are checked against the measures your schools use, including i-Ready, NWEA MAP, and Michigan's M-STEP.

 

Fidelity and outcomes, tracked apart

 

Paper reports whether the program ran with fidelity and whether students grew, so the story is never blurred.

 

Michigan's own 23g evaluation found high-impact tutoring produced the strongest early-grade reading gains of any funded program type.

third-party program VALIDATION
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Validated for High-Dosage Tutoring. Ask the Others to Prove the Same.

3× academic growth at uncompromised scale — embedded, enduring, and accountable. ESSA level III evidence. NSSA program design certified.

ESSA III
ESSA Level III 2025 - Promising Evidence
See the Evidence
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See the Evidence

Paper is a tutoring company. Not an education company adding tutoring on the side.

Since 2014, one focus: designing, delivering, and managing high-dosage tutoring. When tutoring is the whole business, it gets the whole company behind it. That shows up in the tutors, the training, the program design, and the results.

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500+
Districts Partnered

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4M+
Students Supported

 

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2014
Single Focus on Tutoring Since

 

RESULTS FROM DISTRICTS WITH NEEDS LIKE yours

Your Young Learners. Your Tier 2 Students. Your EL Population.
GROW Moves Them All.

Prairie Hills Elementary School District (IL) | 4th/5th Grade ELA

Following the students in the 2023-24 school year without GROW support, then comparing their results in 2024-25 school year after a year of GROW intervention, 3.3x more students achieved grade-level proficiency.

  • + 350% Grade-level proficiency for 4th grade readers
  • + 130% Students at/near grade level for 5th grade readers

> See the full case study

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Bremen High School District (IL) | 9th/10th Grade Math

The district’s goal was clear: strengthen core algebra skills and move significantly more students into proficiency within a single semester.

  • Average assessment scores increased by 16 points in just 8 weeks.
  • The percentage of students meeting proficiency nearly tripled, rising from 23% to 67%.

> See the full case study

“Algebra I students are seeing gains beyond math. 5 went from failing to passing, and one student keeps bragging about their improved grades.”
Bremen Community High School District Algebra I Teacher

Bring GROW High Dosage Tutoring to Your School

 
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